import { type Stats } from "node:fs";
export type ContainedPathKind = "file" | "directory" | "other";
export type ContainedPathInfo = {
    state: "absent";
} | {
    state: "unsafe";
    reason: "symlink" | "outside-root" | "inaccessible";
} | {
    state: "present";
    kind: ContainedPathKind;
    realPath: string;
    stats: Stats;
};
export declare function containedPath(rootReal: string, targetReal: string): boolean;
export declare function inspectContainedPath(rootReal: string, absPath: string): ContainedPathInfo;
export declare function inspectContainedRelativePath(root: string, relPath: string): ContainedPathInfo;